Robotic device for assisting individuals with a mental illness

A robotic device for assisting users with a mental illness, which comprises:

• (a) a robotic support frame having sufficient structure to support the subsequently described components, and having a main torso and a head;
• (b) a central processing unit within said robotic support frame, said central processing unit including software to operate at least five user impact modules and including artificial intelligence software, voice recognition software, speech output software, and a graphical user interface connected to an external screen;
• (c) a power supply component selected from the group consisting of internal power supply and external power connection, connected to said central processing unit;
• (d) said external screen attached to said robotic support frame and having visual display output and having at least touch screen input;
• (e) at least one camera attached to said robotic support frame for viewing a user and connected to said central processing unit;
• (f) at least one microphone attached to said robotic support frame for receiving audio input and connected to said central processing unit;
• (g) at least one speaker attached to said robotic support frame for transmitting audio output and connected to said central processing unit;
• (h) hardware and additional software functionally connected to said central processing unit and to said artificial intelligence software, to said voice recognition software, and to said speech output software, and at least five user impact modules including:
• (i) a first user impact module, being a companion module, with two-way communications to establish companionship with a user;
• (ii) a second user impact module, being a guided meditation module, to provide assistance to a user in conducting personal meditation;
• (iii) a third user impact module, being a psychotherapy treatment module, to receive input from a user, recognize symptoms of a mental illness, define a treatment regimen, and provide corrective guidance and treatment to a user;
• (iv) a fourth user impact module, being a biofeedback module to receive user bio-information and to record and direct biofeedback data;
• (v) a fifth user impact module, being an emergency high risk alert system to receive and recognize suicidal tendencies and to report said suicidal tendencies as an emergency to a third party monitor;
• (vi) a pressure sensing-responding software connected to exoskin sensors and providing positive feedback to a user in response to sensing of inward pressure;
• (vii) camera receiving software with emotional identification features;
• (viii) emotional expressions software to provide a user with selected emotional responses via at least one emotional expression mechanism selected from the group consisting of movement of said head, movement of a component of said head, light changes, audio outputs, and artificial intelligence speech outputs;
• (i) an exoskin attached to at least a portion of said robotic support frame, said exoskin having a plurality of sensors for sensing inward pressure, said plurality of sensors being connected to said pressure sensing-responding software of said central processing unit;
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• (j) at least three distinct levels of entry security for access to said central processing unit, including:
• (i) a first level of security, being a user's level of security, permitting a user to be recognized and to be limited in the use of said robotic device only for user designated purposes and to exclude a user from altering, transferring and eliminating data, from entering a higher level of security, thereby being prevented from operating at said levels of security;
• (ii) a second level of security, being a caretaker level of security, and being a higher level of security than said first level of security, and permitting access to said first level of security, and permitting access to user data for review and report functions, permitting user programming for interaction with various portions of each of said at least five user impact modules;
• (iii) a third level of security, being a manager level of security, and being a higher level of security than said first level of security and said second level of security, and permitting access to said first level of security and said second level of security, and at least permitting access to software for modification and for replacement, for reviewing interaction between a user and a caretaker, and for modifying a treatment for a user.